Nagoya University and AGC Launch New Industry-Academia
Comprehensive Collaboration from Theme Exploration to New
Business Launch- Co-creation of Future Society Created by Materials Tokyo, September 1, 2020–AGC (Headquarters: Tokyo; President: Takuya Shimamura) has
announced that AGC, together with Nagoya University (President: Seiichi Matsuo), will launch a new
industry-academia collaboration initiative designed to quickly and flexibly cover every stage from
exploratory research to full-scale social implementation.

In 2014, Nagoya University established the Institute of Innovation for Future Society ("the Institute")
for the field of applied research. The Institute has been carrying out a variety of industry-academia
collaboration initiatives, primarily in interdependent fields, and has already produced a number ofsuccessful results. Later, in 2018, the 'Promotion Office for Open Innovation'*1 was established aspart of the Institute, and has been actively pursuing the implementation of research results in society.

Meanwhile, AGC has been pursuing the realization of a better society through innovations in materials
such as glass, chemicals and ceramics. Positioning mobility, electronics, and life sciences as strategic
business areas, AGC continues to create new businesses and products, and to strengthen its coretechnologies with the aim of further expanding and growing its business areas. To accelerate R&Defforts, the company has also been promoting open innovation while strengthening partnerships witha variety of universities and organizations.

Nagoya University and AGC have already achieved outstanding research results through individual
joint research in a wide range of technical areas. In the MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science and Technology) Center of Innovation (COI) Program*2 which began in 2014, the 'AGC
Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Division'*3 was also established at Nagoya University.
This division promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration in the life science field with particular focus
on medical and engineering collaboration.

In this latest development, a Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement was signed with the aim ofstrengthening mid- to long-term collaboration and expanding target fields. These fields are not only
the life science field, but also the mobility field―one of Nagoya University's strengths―with appliedresearch and new product development based on evaluation technology, and the field of innovative
fundamental technologies such as plasma science and materials research.

In order to combine the needs of AGC, which is centered on strategic businesses, with the fundamental
technologies of Nagoya University in this comprehensive collaboration initiative, AGC’s IndustryAcademia Collaborative Research Division and the Institute's Promotion Office for Open Innovation
will work together to create a new and more comprehensive structure capable of quickly realizing
every stage from the launch of exploratory research, whose purpose is to examine basic principles andvalidate technologies, to the transition to full-scale collaborative research, and finally social
implementation through commercialization.

With Nagoya University serving as the hub for co-creation through industry-academia collaboration,
this collaboration between Nagoya University and AGC will complement and combine the various
strengths of AGC with those of other companies and universities to realize a research platform thatwill pursue new innovations and value creation.

Nagoya University's National Innovation Complex, which houses the Promotion Office for Open
Innovation and AGC Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Division(Nagoya University Higashiyama Campus, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya City)

Notes:*1: About the Promotion Office for Open Innovation (within the Institute of Innovation for Future Society)

With the 2018 adoption of 'Project for Establishing Institutes for Open Innovation' (MEXT, 2018),
the Promotion Office for Open Innovation was established in November 2018 as part of the Instituteof Innovation for Future Society. In not only the research fields and R&D departments that areheavily involved in corporate business strategy but also those fields where closed collaborative
research is conducted (competitive fields), this Promotion Office aims to establish a structure thatenables companies and university researchers to promote and manage large-scale joint research
projects from development to commercialization (for social implementation) based on universityproposed solutions.
*2: A MEXT program that provides up to 9 years of support for vision-driven challenging and high-risk R&D aimed atachieving the ideal vision for society in 10 years from now.
*3: About the AGC Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Division

Name

Biodevice Processing Research Division (AGC)

Research content

1) Research and development of microfabrication-technology-based
biodevices, etc., intended for health and medical treatment fields
2) Exploratory research themes in the three main research areas of (1) lifescience, (2) mobility, and (3) innovative fundamental technologies

Academic staff

Specially Appointed Professor: Takashige Maekawa; Specially Appointed
Associate Professor: Yoko Mitsui
Specially Appointed Assistant Professors: Naoyuki Kogo/Zetao Zhu

For inquiries concerning this release:
Community Relations Division, Research Cooperation Department, Nagoya University
TEL: 052-789-5545 E-mail: k-sangakukan@aip.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Promotion Office for Open Innovation website: https://www.oi.mirai.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Division, AGC Inc.
TEL: 03-3218-5603 E-mail: info-pr@agc.com